The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 64
“Then,” answered the Fairy, “you are my husband, and I am your wife.
Who acts: Fairy, you · What happens: answer, be · To what, where: husband, wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 answered | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Then | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Fairy | det |
| 7 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 husband | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 husband | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 husband | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 husband | cop |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 husband | nmod:poss |
| 13 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Fairy | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wife | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 wife | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 wife | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 wife | cop |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wife | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the Fairy and my husband | then | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | you | my husband | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the Fairy and my husband = fairy | your wife | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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